Nine days after a fire in the Galeria Kaufhof branch on Berlin's Alexanderplatz, it burned again there.
As the fire brigade announced early Monday evening, the building was evacuated.
A fire department spokesman said that half a cubic meter of textiles had burned in the basement of the department store.
People were not injured.
The fire department announced on Twitter that the fire was extinguished by the sprinkler system.
Police officers then investigated on site how the fire could have come about, according to a police spokesman.
Unlike on October 30, the fire did not break out this time in a sales room, according to the information.
A good week ago, three people were injured when there was a fire on the fourth floor of the department store.
The police arrested a 26-year-old at the time.
He is said to have set fire to objects on the floor on which home textiles and household goods are sold, among other things.
Due to a corresponding illness, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital, according to the police.